Chapter 2: Legal Aspects of Investigations

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  1. 4. The process of looking for evidence of a crime.
  2. 5. Cause, A condition in which an officer has a suspicion about an individual and knowledge of facts and circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been being or is about to be, committed.
  3. 6. and Frisk, A limited pat-down of the outer clothing of a person is encountered by a law enforcement officer when the person is acting suspiciously, and the officer, concerned about safety, seeks to determine if the person has a weapon.
  4. 8. Violation, Any document reporting where the officer lied or was untruthful must be presented to the defense. Such officers cannot testify in court without being impeached, hence, their ability to work as a police officers is seriously compromised.
  5. 10. Criminal Law, The branch of criminal law defines what can and cannot be done with, or to, people.
  6. 13. The act of formally asserting that a particular person is to be prosecuted for a crime.
  7. 14. Criminal Law, A branch of criminal law deals with the elements that describe and define a crime.
  8. 15. A sworn, written statement of the information known to an officer serves as the basis for the issuance of an arrest warrant or a search warrant.
  9. 17. Circumstances, An exception to the requirement that law enforcement officers have a search warrant; occurs when there is a compelling need for official action and there is no time to get a warrant.
  10. 18. Warrant, Written authorization by a judge allows law enforcement officers to look for specified items of evidence of a crime in a specified place.
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  1. 1. Warrant, A judicial order commands that a particular person is arrested and brought before a court to answer a criminal charge.
  2. 2. A temporary and limited interference with a person’s freedom for investigative purposes. Also called investigative detention, street stop, and field interrogation.
  3. 3. The long line of cases evolving since Mapp and Ker has essentially revolved around the single issue of what constitutes a reasonable search in instances where law enforcement officers act with or without a warrant.
  4. 7. and Seizure, The process of looking for evidence of a crime and taking that evidence into the custody of a law enforcement agency.
  5. 9. The process of taking a person into legal custody to answer a criminal charge.
  6. 11. Process, Fairness.
  7. 12. Process Clause, The title of clauses appearing in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
  8. 16. of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine-Evidence obtained from an unreasonable search and seizure cannot be used as the basis for learning and or collecting newly admissible not know before.